North Brown Cemetery

The farm families who buried their dead here lived through hard decades. Mills County's population, 9,694 in 1910, began a steady decline in that decade, falling to 9,019 by 1920 and 8,293 by 1930, even as about 32,000 acres were still planted in cotton. The Great Depression of the 1930s hit the county's economy hard, though federal relief projects offset some of the worst effects. Harvested cropland fell from 89,343 acres in 1930 to 78,372 in 1940, the number of farms dropped 9 percent to 1,364, and the population slid to 7,951.

What the plaque says

North Brown Cemetery Named for creek followed by homeseekers, this burial ground originated about 1857 when death struck at a nearby campsite. In the 1870s North Brown farming community surrounded this site. It had a school and held church services in the schoolhouse. In 1895 local leaders A. A. Boulter, G. M. O'Quin, and J. S. Weatherby secured a deed to the acreage in which graves had so long existed, and the North Brown Cemetery Association was formed. After school had closed, proceeds from sale of its site were pledged in 1967 for cemetery care. Pioneer families continue burials here. (1976)

Where it stands

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